
When Karen’s parents were preparing to move to Texas a few months ago, they set aside all manner of media pertaining to family history – old family photos, old documents and copies of other old documents, snapshots, slides, and am overwhelming mass of magnetic tapes both VHS and cassette. As the self appointed family historians, we are taking on the responsibility of converting all this to digital. This morning’s project has been reviewing the miscellaneous cassette tapes. We’ve found a few treasures! Now we have to figure out how to transfer the content since neither of our Mac computers have an audio-in port!
Dakar, Senegal: A Wolof Village & The Pink Lake
Queen Mary 2’s arrival in the Port of Dakar, Senegal was heralded in the local press and greeted with ceremony. Our own excursion took us on a coach journey through the streets of the capital city to visit a Wolof village and the shore of Lake Retba, the salty lake famed for an intense pink color.




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